Upper Heworth Colliery (Ada Pit)

HER Number

3890

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Upper Heworth Colliery (Ada Pit)

Place

Heworth

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the position of Upper Heworth Colliery. Upper Heworth Colliery. Ada Pit opened at Heworth in the 1700s. It closed 29 June 1963. Former owners included Mr Blackett, JP Pearson and Co (1850s), Henderson Anderson & Co, Heworth Coal Company Ltd and from 1947 NCB. Plans of Heworth Colliery exist from 1762. The winding pit was sunk in 1819 to the Hutton seam and to Beaumont seam in 1876. In 1894 1000 men and boys worked there. The staithes were at Pelaw. On 5 September 1826 an explosion killed 5 people.

Easting

428330

Northing

560520

Grid Reference

NZ428330560520

Sources

<< HER 3890 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 7; http://www.dmm.org.uk; Whellan, 1894, Directory of County Durham; Norman Emery, 1998, Banners of the Durham Coalfield